9 to 5
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Objectives on Resume? Yay or nay?
What's the general consensus whether to have a objective on a resume? I like to think no but DH seems to think it's necessary for his resume, he's in sales right now but looking for career change.
Everytime I've seen an objective I either think that they are blantently obvious (yes I know you want a job hence the resume or provides no additional/useful information to resume). What do you think?
Re: Objectives on Resume? Yay or nay?
I have never included a career objective on my resume. Like you said, they're pretty obvious (yes, of course you want a challenging career in X industry where you can utilize your X skills.) To me, they scream "Newbie straight out of college with no experience."
However - if your DH is looking to change industries or careers, it does make sense to give a brief explanation of what provoked the sudden change of course and how he thinks he could transfer his skills to this new role. I would include a brief discussion of this on the cover letter, however.
I loathe objectives on the resume.
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
You are correct - the objective of your resume is to land you a job. There is no need to state the obvious.
What you might consider including is a summary section at the top that highlights your key skills and experience. 3-4 sentences usually would suffice.
I don't have an objective, but I did add 3 bullet points up top called "summary of qualifications". I wasn't changing fields but wanted to highlight the fact that my experience qualifies me for several types of jobs within my field (accounting).
I did this mainly because at my last 2 employers I had the same job title and, although if they read the detailed job description they could see the varied accomplishments, I wanted something up top in case they were only scanning the resumes.
nay